#tulipmania — Public Fediverse posts
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I saw in a post today someone calling the "AI" / LLM tulipmania "Gilded Age 2: Electric Boogaloo", and I think that's pretty fantastic.
#tulipmania #GildedAge #GildedAge2ElectricBoogaloo #ElectricBoogaloo
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"Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase," Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1610-15.
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was a member of the Brueghel family of artists, which produced some exceptional ones. He operated in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and was something of a pioneer in the floral painting genre, as few artists of the period had done them before him.
There's an interesting economic take on this that I'm seeing...the Chinese vase is an indicator of the Dutch trading prowess on one hand, but on the other...the tulips are prominently featured, and the Dutch tulip mania was just starting to come to life when he painted this, becoming history's first recorded speculative bubble and a byword for any market where the prices of something outstrip their intrinsic value.
But hey, it's Flower Friday!
From the Mauritshuis, the Hague.
#Art #DutchArt #FlemishArt #FlowerFriday #JanBrueghelTheElder #TulipMania